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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2018 — General Studies · Question 175 of 200

Q175
Current Affairs & General KnowledgeAwards & Honours
Who is the recipient of Nobel Prize in literature in 2017?
  1. a.Salman Rushdie
  2. b.Amitabha Ghosh
  3. c.Kazuo Ishiguro
  4. d.Paulo Coelho

Answer: (C) Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japan-born British novelist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017; his best-known novels are 'The Remains of the Day' (Booker Prize, 1989) and 'Never Let Me Go'. The 2016 prize had gone to Bob Dylan. Among the distractors, Salman Rushdie won the Booker for 'Midnight's Children' and Amitav Ghosh later received the Jnanpith Award (2018); neither has won the Nobel.

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